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VOLUME 49" CAMDEN, SOUTH CAROLINA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 22, 1937 NUMBER 32
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Friday's Parade
I Was Pleasing. Affair
I Ker?ba?' County > Constitution Day
tirade, featuring a braBH band, float*,
^ Kershaw Quardi, county dignlta
horsemen, and about every feaC
vhkh would make a parade a
f ccese. topped anything of it* kind
Kn in the county for years.
I beading the parade, just behind a
BLgor cycle entourage, and whipping
Btht. watching crowd into the iipirit or
She occasion was the Sumter high
chool band, of approximately thirty
ifeces, which came to Kershaw counBtjto
help celebrate the occasion. FolllowinK
the band came the Kershaw
Guards unit, after which were cars
tearing officials of the city and coun
(v jH'pri'sontatlves of the different
Bduba in Camden, Hon.- Wyndham M.
Bjumilug, speaker of the day.
Next in line came a group of horse nen
representative of the carefree
tunter's and sportsman's life in the
Bplonies in pioneer days, and following
this group were the floats, brtghtBfy
decorated, designed and construct
^ by schools of the county aud the
American l^eglon.
I Following in the story which the
loats told of events relating to the
Btoastitution and the schools who presented
the different floatB:
First the lied Men roamed the counBtry
(Lugoff, Wateree, Pine Grove),
llTlng i>eacefully In their wigwams,
nut doing hunting, fishing and farming
then the settlers (Antioch) came
from across the sea in search of new
tomes in a land where all was peace
tod freedom. However, their dream
?{ a I'topia was Interrupted by the
other country?England, who bolame
fearful of the rapid growth of
tte colonies and sent soldiers and
Ifroops ( Blaney) to see that proper relipect
for British rule was enforced.
Kke settlers resenfred the outrages
committed by the English government,
and ds a result the thirteen collltles
(Camden) took up arms and
iimilp ready to fight for tEPfldnm (R?r Ira
DeKaibp After years of fighting,
Hie colonies were victorious; treaties
Kere signed, and the colonies Baw the
fream of ages come true. At last
hey were free, A new nation under
Knew flag (Midway)
Ami now thoughts were turned
from problems of war to problems of
government. A council, of statesmen
Ketded by men.^uch ab George Washington.
Benjamin Franklin, and many
ethers, saw the need of an instrument
Id government, and a constitution
Itu written up. All of the colonies
rat delegates and thirty-nine men in
ill signed the constitution (Camden).
Among one of the very first of the
colonies to ratify the document was
Booth Carolina (Charlotte Thompson)
Boon a new government was established
with George Washington as
president and Martha Washington as
lint lady (American Legion), and the
Great Seal of the United States (Mt.
Ptogah) was accepted. Today the spilth
of the great epoch still breathes
Ifte story of "We the people of the
totted States" (Bethune) and the
Bre&t Statue of Liberty falls over the
lution to represent all that we stand
Bor-Uberty. peace, equality (Pine
I 1'pon arrival at the court house,
Hdaracters from the floats grouped on
B&< porc h and on the steps of the old
Building and. waited for the exercises
the day to begin.
Following the floats, three thousand
H*hool children from the city and
B"nty, gayly bedecked in red, white
blue and accompanied by their
B*chers. paraded in line.
The parade came to an end at the
Court House. . M
^fOfficia'.s for constitution day were
Hu.ney Tlndal, Mrs. J. L. WHUBw,
Marion Williams, Frank Heath,
Ancrum, Sam Karesh, W. F.
B^Ues, .!r., and w. R. Zemp. WorkBfr
committees for the day were as
B^oatn Mrs. Donald Morrisin, Sam
Bj^h. c b. Busbee, MrB. J. L- WllMrs
Hughey Tindal. v
Bw^rad ?Charlea DuBoae, Jr., W. F.
B*^w, Jr., Marion Williams.
Hnanrr?? Mayor J. H. Osborne, EL
(r" d 1 f Ighey Tlndal.
^Fubijrity?Thomas Ancrum, Frank
B^offram -John deLoach, W. Hobln
FD' J <"? Richards'. ir* Mr*. lUthB1
R Watts.
B^*lit also goes to the teachers of
**hools Of Kershaw ?ouaty, who.
g* the leadership of Iff*- Watts,
W& ?*P?rintet?d?t Of
parade ap affair to be re
Darlington Here
For Tonight's Game
1 ho Camden high school grid team
with a record of rolling up 113 points
?s against 8 registered by opponents
in the tlvo gomes so far played this
season, meet their toughest assignment
Friday night when an aggressive
and alert Darlington high team
comes to Zemp field, in this city.
Camden, recognized by sport writel
s of the south us the wonder team
of the season, has had but one touchdown
scored agaiust them this season,
that being at Charleston when
the Bantams sneaked over the goal
line in the first quarter of that September
26th battle. In fairness to
the Bulldogs It must be said that this
counter wns hung up against a team
in which several reserves wore listed.
When the regulars were shot into the
lineup Camden went places.
The other two points were registered
by the Hartsvllle team In the game
ou October 8. In all of the other
games the Bulldogs defense was so.
powerful that the opposition were unable
to penetrate sufficient to cross
the Camden goal line. Sumter went
down 32 to 0, Brookland-Cayce 27 to
0 and Porter Military Academy 14 to
0.
The Darlington team comes to
Camden Friday night with a fine record/
""While not as impressive as
that of the Camden Bulldogs, the visitors
to date will have manhandled
opposition with a flness that Indicates
power and speed. The game Is to be
played Friday night under lights and
if the weather Is right, It la believed
that a record crowd will be on hand.
On the following Friday, the 1936
Class A champions, the Chester high,
invade Zemp field and this game will
bring out every fan In Camden and
Kershaw county. Chester won the
state title last season and has a great
team in the field again this year. The
game will virtually constitute a title
affair as critics believe that If Camden
can get by Chester, they are In
Camden takes on Newberry on the
home gridiron on November 6, and
then jaunts to Florence for a game
on November 12. Two dates, November
19 and November 26 are open.
Burrell Gregory
Dies Suddenly
Burrell F. Gregory, corporal at the
state farm at Boykln Station and residing
on Highland avenue In this
city died suddenly Sunday morning,
death being ascribed to heart failure
following an operation.1'
Mr. Gregory, a native of Kershaw
was 50 years of age. He has been
employed at the prison farm for the
past two years. Besides his wife,
Florence, he leaves six children, Gary,
John, Claude and Curtis, of this city;
Otis of Pine Orchard, Connecticut;
one daughter, Larene, of this city, and
two brothers, Ernest Gregory, of Kershaw;
and Russell Gregory, of Doraville,
Ga.
Deceased was a bom of . Amos E.
Gregory and Lara Jones, bolh pioneer
residents, of Kershaw.
The funeral was held Monday with
burial at the Sand Hill cemetery.
Baptist Church 8ervlces
The following services are announced
for the week beginning October
24, at the First Baptist church: Sunday
school at 10 o'clock with G. S.
King, superintendent, in charge. Public
worship conducted by the pastor,
J. B. Canton, at 11:15 a .m. and 7:30
p. m. Morning subject: "Man." Evening
subject: "The Only Safe Foundation
of the Home." B. T. U. Sunday
evening at 6:30. Prayer meeting
Wednesday evening at 7:30. The publice
is cordially invited to attend all
services of this church.
TO 8HIP HOGS MONDAY
The Kershaw County Farmers' Ex-1
change will load hogs for shipping
on Monday, October 25, beginning at ,
one o'clock in the afternoon at the j
Seaboard freight depot. Anyone bar
ing hogs that weigh from 180' to 260 (
pounds should sell them at this time.],
We will pay one cent per pound )?n-i
der the Richmond market on the day
that we ship, or the people can consign
the hogs and get probably a little
more. The last car we shipped t
the money came within three days ,
after loading. Freitt itll indications
wa will have enough hogs to load
three ears on fcomday. This will canee
the. freight rate to he cheaper says W.
C. McCarley, County Agent ^:
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May Establish Red
Cross First Aid Post
A first uld station, for tho purpose
of helping people who are injured ill
highway accidents, Is one of the pro- j
Jects which tile Kershaw county chapter
of the lted Cross will undertake
during this next year, according to
Mrs. John Mullen, chairman of the
Holl Call. Although several times in
the past Dr. A. W Humphries, county
health director, has attempted to establish
a first aid station 011 the U.
S. Number 1 highway near Midway
school, the station has never been established
because of lack of the cooperation
necessary for the project.
A growing consciousness of the
need for more experts in administering
first aid has resulted in the training
of an unusual number of persons
during the past fiscal year, according
to Oliver Rice, chairman of the
Kershaw county chapter of the Red
Cross.
"It is possible to note unmistakable
signs of progress in making the coun-j
try first aid conscious, Mr. Rico Baid.}
"This is not from statistics alone, but I
from the obvious interest that is be-'
ing aroused among children In the'
schools, employees in large Industrial
companies, owners of Isolated farms, I
and parents as well.
"This interest last year led 266,884 i
persons to take specialized courses J
in first aid, certificates being award- |
ed in classes varying from three to
as many as fifty.
'The immediate treatment of those
Injured on the highways is one of the
chief needs In the elimination of
deaths and permanent Injuries from
automobile accidents," Mr, Rice pointed.
out. "We have found the greatest
danger spots to be those in rural,
rather than urban aroas, and to com- i
bat this danger we have inaugurated j
and are rapidly expanding our sys- |
tern of first aid stations along the j
highways from Maine to California, I
The chulrman explained that the'
Americas Red Croga bath~gtready efl j
tablished approximately 1,800 of these 1
emergency highway first aid stations,'
placing them in filling stations, road-1
side inns, police sub-stations, and fire
departments, at the same time training
an adequate number of persons!
in the immediate vicinity or connect-!
ed with the filling station or inn gpon- j
soring the projects in order to keep!
them manned constantly.
"Through the past year the Red
Cross has been concentrating on the'
establishment of mobile units in first'
aid," Mr. Rice explained. "Several'
thousand trucks belonging to utility j
companies, highway police patrols,
shipping concerns and state highway
departments are being equipped with
first aid kits, while their drivers and
other workers are being trained in
the administration of first aid to carp '
for accident victims until a doctor's ]
care is available."
It was pointed out that Red Cross '
first aid was xipt Intended to replace
regular medical attention, but rather
to render only first aid during emergencies?when
such care should be'
considered a safeguard until compe- i
tent medical care can be given vie-!
tims of crashes or other accidents.
"Better employment conditions!
have brought increased demands for
first aid training in the Industries,"
Mr. Rice said. "Our local chapter of
the Red Cross, as ' well as the resources
and the teaching staff of the
national organizatlpn is concentrating
on reaching an increasingly large J
number of persons in order to spread
the teaching of first aid as widely as
possible.
"It is a deplorable fact," Mr. Rice
concluded, "that accidents on highways
are increasing rather than decreasing.
While we are doing all possible
to cut these accidents down, we
must recognize the fact that many of
them seem to be inevitable, and our
task is to prepare as many persons
as possible to cope with them."
According to Mrs. John Mullen, the
chairman of the Roll Call, the most
welcome sight which she and Mr.:
Mullen and Mr. and Mrs. Jack Whltaker,
Jr., saw while abroad last sum-!
mer were the numerous first aid stations
everywhere of ihe American
Red Cross. "
Mt. Plsgah Church Services i
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On Sunday, October 24, we will
bring our first in a series of messages
from the book of Jonah. Our subject
will be: "God'a Call." We urge aU
members to\be preeent and cordially
invite visitor* to Worship with ?a
Sunday school at It a. m. Preaching
at 11 a. ay4uv, Connie Dabney, Pa*
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Rotary President
Of France Here
Maurice duPerrey, president of the
Pari*, Prance, llotary club and also
president of Rotary International, accompanied
by Madame duPerrey
pulsed through Camden Monday afternoon
on the Seaboard Airline Nvw
York Florida Limited.
Within a few blocks of the spot
where (jeneral Lafayette planted a
cedar tree In front of the old court
house, the eminent French Hoturlan
addreaaed a gathering of Camden Rotarlans
who had motored to the Seaboard
station to extend greetings to
I their International President.
Monsieur duPerrey and his wife left
their car when informed that the
Camden Roturians'were on the station
platform to welcome him and his
.appearance was the .signal for a burst
of applause.
Dr. John Corbett, who enjoys the
distinction of having been Camden
Rotary s first president, was spokesman
for the local group and presented
the International President with
a Volume of "Historic Camden." This
gift was particularly appropriate In
view of the fact that the book chronicles
the details of the visit of Lafayette
to Camden, his planting of the
historic cedar tree, laying of the corner
stone of the DeKalb monument,
find the like.
Monsieur duPerrey responded to
the remarks of Dr. Corbett grnclously
and acknowledged the gift with an
expression of appreciation. Madame
duPerrey was presented with an exquisite
bouquet of flowers, all in the
gold and blue of Rotary.
Monsieur and Madame duPerrey
have been at Miami, Florida, following
a visit to South American countries
and Cuba. He was on his way
to Washington where with his wife ho
will he guest at the French embassy
and take part in a ceremony to be
held at the tomb of the unknown
soldier at Arlington.
After a visit in Washington the RoNew
York, Chicago and into Canada
and..will set Ball for France November
10.
Officials Invited For
Air Flights Saturday
Camden city and Kershaw county
officials will be literally,, "up in the
air" Saturday, if they accept the invitation
extended by the Chamber of
Commerce to be guests of the State
Aeronautical Commission on a series
of flights over' South Carolina.
Dexter C. Martin, of Columbia, director
of the state aeronautics commission,
was in Camden Wednesday
in conference with the Chamber of
Commerce secretary and arrangements
were made to have Mr. Martin
bring his Stinson gull wing, three passenger
plane to Camden this week
and take the city, county and Chamber
of Commerce officials on trips in
the air lanes.
The Chamber has communicated
with all of the officials requesting
them to bo at the Woodward airport
Saturday afternoon at 1 o'clock for
their cloudland jaunt. Many of them
have declared their intention of being
present.
The Chamber Is anxious to get the
Woodward airport cared for by federal
aid. It la believed that the weekend
visit of the state director may result
in the assistance of the W. P. A.
being provided in keeping the vast
expanse of air field mowed.
The state commission through the
efforts of Mr. Martin sent a truck to
the air field Thursday and with the
use of a county mower, the immediate
mowing of the entire field was start*
ed In order that It would be in shape
for the big air show Sunday.
Methodist Church 8ervlces
The following services will be held
at Lyttleton Street Methodist church
on Sunday: Sunday school, 10 a. m.;
morning worship, 11:15 a. m. Sermon
by the pastor; evening worship, 7:30
p. m., sermon by the pastor. The
public is cordially ipvited to all of |
these services.
* OFFICES LOCATED HERE
Announcement is made by the
chamber of commerce that the WPA
offices and staff supervising WPA activities
in Kershaw, Lee and I^uicaater
counties have been returned to
Camden. 5 *. ' ?
- The offices, employing a staff ef
seven workers and in charge of
"Tucker" Bjoykin were in Camden
when first organised but for some
time pest have bean at Kerahaw.
Mrs. Barbers Dnaeen Hopkins, 37,
wife of the WPA administrator, died
la a Washington hospital after sn 111laearbfnmeral
weeks.
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Stunts Sunday At j
Woodward Airport |
Flyers and stunt artists of national,
reputation will perform in the air'
I
over the Woodward airport Sunday
afternoon, tin- show proper will start
promptly at throe o'clock but will be
preceded by an hour of formation and
sight-seeing flying.
This is tno nrsi 01 a series of big
air demonstrations arranged by Jim-1
mle Woods, who Is now managing i
the Woodward airport and who in-j
tends tho field to be known all over
the country for Its fine servlco. Ho
has S. C. (Doc) Zemp associated with
him in the management.
The Bhow to be offered will be
under tho auspices of the Korshaw
OuardB and is said to be exactly tho
same big show that twenty-flve thousand
awe struck funs paid to see In
Charlotte three weeks ago.
This will mark tho formal wintor
opening of tho Woodward airport
which is available for all planes during
tho year.
Included in some of the sensational I
ucts to be offered to a thrill loving
public will be sky-writing, airplane
tug 'o war. bombing an automobile j
from tho air, ribbon cutting, low ul-l
titude parachute Jump, a light piano
race, board wall crash on a motorcycle,
a ton thousand foot delayed!
parachute jump, spot landing contests
and many other daring and j
thrilling acts.
Jack- Huber, of Hollywood, Cal., will j
climax the show with his own con-1
eeption of a delayed Jump, in this act
Huber' is so high when he leaves the
ship that he is not visable to the
eye so he carries a twenty-four pound
bag of flour and rolouBes a long1
stream of 'smoke' so that spectators I
may follow his downward plunge to'
within just a few hundred feet of the1
ground before he pulls the rip cord
which releases the silken billow of
white upon which his life depends.
Miss Jessie Martin, of Seattle,
Wash., formerly with the Flying Ac^a
Air Bhow and now Mrs. Jimmie Woods
will also perform, she has had only
one accident In her years of stunting
and at that time the show was making
a picture for Paramount when a
sudden lurch of the ship threw her
clear of the plane and it was several'
hundred feet before she was able to
reach her rip cord ahd open her parachute,
this film is being shown at the
Camden theatre this week and you
can see her there and In person at
the airport Sunday.
The Kershaw Guards call attention '
to the law of the department of com-|
merce, aeronautics branch, that no'
parking will be permitted within an'
area of one mile from the airport ex-1
cept In the designated parking area'
directly on the airport proper, city,'
county and state officials are co-oper- j
ating with the Guards and all arrange-'
monts have been made to handle what'
Is expected to be the largest crowd j
to ever assemble In Camden for an [
event of this kind.
Second Week Jurors
For Common Pleas
Jurors for the second week of the
court of common ploas were drawn
Tuesday to report on Monday, November
8, for Jury service. Judge W.
H. Grlmball, of Charleston, will preside.
The names of the Jurors and
their postofflce address follows:
E. C. Pearce, BoykJn; A, W.. Willis,
J. J. Sanders, C. W. Shiver, Clarence
H. Hornsby, Ernest Gladden, 0.
W. Sinclair, W. J. Mayfleld, R. E.
Chewning, E. C. Zemp, M. H. Heyman,
Lawrence Jones, W. B. Porter,,
Camden; Leslie Ray, J. J. Talbert,
Lugoff; C. J. Strickland, B. I. Maddox,
R. A. Maddox, Robert Branh&m,
Blaney; J. R. Jordan, R. H. Young,
C. P. Hilton, We8tville; H. L, Anderson,
A. E. Watklns, H. C. McCoy, J.
E. Anderson, Caasatt; R. M. Ray, H.
;E. Klrkley. Ashell Ellis, E. W. Croxton,
T. H. Young, 0. R. Crow. J. Wesley
Boone, B. J. Catoe, J. O. Roberts,
J. E. Sowell, Kershaw.
POULTRY 8HIPMENT MONDAY
We will have a poultry shlpmont
on Monday, October 26. and will load
from the following places: Bethune,
9:00 to 11:00 o'clock in the morning;
Camden, 12:00 to 1:30 o'clock In the
evening; Kershaw, 2:30 to 4:3C
o'clock In the evening.
The following prices will be paid:
Colored henns, 16 cents; Leghorx
hens, )3 cents; roosters, 8 Gents;
ducks, 12 cents; turkey hens, 1
pounds tp, 20 cents; toms, 16 poundi
np, 18 cents; old toms, 18 cents; gain
ess, 86 cents each ?W. C. McCartey
Comity Agent.
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Manning Speaker
For Celebration
(Hy Frank II Heath)
('atmlt'ii paid beautiful tribute to
the heroes i?f the American Constitulion
last Friday.
(bVi paths hallowed by the poignant
memories of revolutionary and
civil warfare, where the blood patriot
and invader wan Kpitlled In hiHtorio
fighting, three thousand school
children marched to the strulus of
ntartiul mualo.
Thousands of people watched the
parade of gayly attired school children.
the finely arranged floats, the
machine-like proclslon of the Kerahaw
Guards as it marched from I-afayette
Avenue to the old court house.
It was Camden's tribute to the ono
hundred and fiftieth anulversary of
the signing of the constitution, and
as in all past events of a public nature,
Camden and i\ersbaw county,
"did itself proud."
Despite the short time given in
which to prepare for the event, it
was presented with a magnitude of
scope, a thoroughness of detail, and
a precision of execution as to make
it one of the red letter episodes of
Camden history.
Over three thousand school children;
gay with fantastic headgoar,
carrying flags and marching with
bright eyes and alert mien, took part
in this glorious tribute to a great
democratic event. Floats, a description
of which will be found elsewhero
In the paper, had been arranged and
preBonted with an exquisite degreo of
artistry. All were symbolic of some
outstanding event in history and woro
so well presented that signs of designation
woro unneccessnry. The portrayal
of characters was so perfect
that episodos were quickly sensod.
The parade led by the Sumter high
school band and the Kershaw Guards
swung down Broad street *1 _
o'clock and It is a fitting commentary
on the manner in which the parade
and program-was conducted to statu
that the last episode, the sound of
"tapB" took place at 11:30 a. m.
The address of Wyndham M. Manning,
of Sumter, speaker of the day,
was an epic and was listened to by
a large crowd, occupying every available
space around the old court
house. Mr. Manning was introduced
by Mayor J. H. Osborne, who with
city officials and civic leaders, occupied
seuts on the speaker's platform.
A fine public address system installed
by the Kirkland and Team electrical
' firm carried the voice of the
speaker to the far reaches of the
crowd and every word was heard distinctly.
Mr. Manning has a radio voice,
similar in tone and inflection to that
of President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
It was a splendid address and fitting
to the occasion.
His scathing attack on the international
racketeers, Mussolini, Hitler
Stalin and the war party of Japan for t
their disregard and repudiation of
solemn treaties binding the honor of
the signatories to protect the neutral
and unarmed non-combatants, was
greeted with approval by his listeners.
He referred to the acts of these
so-called rulers as filling the world
with the agony of the fatherless, of
the widow, and of Innocent victims.^
The music of the spheres 'Is drowned
in the agonised cries of a world gone
stark raving crazy." Interesting paragraphs
of Mr. Manning's address
will be found elsewhere in this issue.
The program at the court house
was opened by the singing of "America."
Then came an eloquent tribute
and historical recital by the Reverend
R. Bryce Herbert of the Methodist
church.
Following the address of Mr. Manning,
Massenburg Trotter gave a rhetorically
perfect and beautiful tribute .
to Baron DeKalb, who met death
while fighting for American freedom.
The the Kershaw Guards took
charge of the program and when the
machine guns started, darts of flame
from the gun muzzles swept over a
terrain beneath which slept hundreds
ot Britlsu aud American soldiers. The
sounding of "taps" closed the pro,
gram.
I The steps and balcony of the historic
court house presented a picture
> that will linger long in the memory
l of those who were present at the ex* ;
; erclses. All of the gayly garbed
I characters of the parade, grand
? dames, colonial soldiers, Puritans, lnI
dlana, George end Martha Washing',
ton, all added a color to the scene
tt?t wu mm toMmta*.